Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-07
NORTHWESTERN ITEMS.
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OF the past.
A medical college has been opened at Col
fax Springs.
John d Phelan, Of Keokuk, has mysteri-
eusly disappeared.
The new coll,g building at Tabor was
dedicated the other day.
Counterf, 1t 80 silver certificates are being
worked OF at Cedar Rapids.
Ottumwa street cars, 1t is expected, will be
supplied with electric power.
The ager OF the Des Moines base ball
club gets $500 per month salary.
The Iowa Day is The title Of a new paper
that will appear at Clinton May =.
Ottumwa has a street railway company.-
Next thing Is to build the railway. ~
The Conductors Monthly is 10 be removed
back from Chicago to Cedar Rapids.
Davenport has 1875 men and thirty teams
employed on street work at present.
The National Guard encsmplnent In Iowa
this year will probably be by brigades.
Cedar Falls shipped 800 car loads of manu-
features and other products last month.
The Odd Fellows of Des Mniaes celebrated
their sixty eighth anniversary last week.
Contracts will not be let until May 18th for
building the new brif ( at Council luis.
Creston claims the champion single scull
rover in the state. His nauie is w. O.. Ran
som.
Cedar Rapids sent a delegation OF 500 to
attend the Odd Fellows anniversary at lows
City.
On the 2c,h inst. 81, 400 So WAS paid over to
the northern d district collector at Davenport
for annual licenses, due May [.
The Police Gazette proposes TO contest the
constitutionality OF the Iowa obscene litsrS-
ture law, go far AS it coScerns them.
The oldest federal jadge, IN point Of
service, in this country is J. NJ. Love, of
KeokuK, who was appointed by Pierce IN
1856.
The wife Of = Dubuque datrymen found
dead In \ field near the fair grounds has ex-
cited suspicion Of fou play, and an inquest
Is now being held.
WAS Instantly killed h tn cars at Eigin, H.,
Wednesday morning Will on his way TO
Chicago with stock.
Police Judge Lsbour has returned TO Des
climate Of Canada did not agree with him,
and be proposes TO suffer among friends the
| disgrace OF his populations.
Il. w. Thurlby, aged sixty-eight, an old and
respected citizen Of Creston, dropped dead OF
apoplexy while walking on the street Thurs
day morning. He was born IN England and
came 10 Creston in the forties.
at Tabor recently some of the young men
rotten-egged certain young ladies because
they had refused 10 ALLOW the young men To
accompany them home from meeting. The
perpetrators Of the outrage have been ar
rested.
Prophet Foster ~reioices that he hit the
bulls-eye Oh the storms OF the LII and 23i
He further afiirms that after to-day ''farmefi
can plant corn to advantage" l. i probabl,
they will ignore his advice and plant curn t
grow.
Mrs. James Hughes, Of Burlington, died o
consumption on Wednesday. In the after
noon Of the same day Andrew Hughes, he
fsther-in. isw remarked TO a friend that h
would soon follow her. An hour later he dice
of heart disease.
A young man named Spencer, living nes
Logan, was riding upon u load Of hay Wtdnes
day, and by SOM mischance he fell. Hi
face ST. uek the upturped tines OF q pitch-fork
and one OF the tines entered his eye, pAssin,
through his brain and killing hun Instantly
Buena Vista county will be without u cour
house after the Is; u July, unless In tn,
meantime u new one should be huilt. Whei
the present court bouse was built 1t va
agreed that it should be used bv the count,
rental free for ten years, and then revert t
the town. The ten years viii expire on th'
date above mentioned.
At Des Moin,s recently, while explaining t.
a group OF friends how an acquaintance hs(
accidentally shot himself in tn. left hand
Mir. George Brewer made theilus,rs,ion quite
realistic and graphic by wounding himself II
the same place and In the same Academia
manner.
The case against the Gsrmapia Brewing
company, Al LeMsrs, was dismissed Friday by
Justice Farrell and the , ficer was ordered tc
turn over the beer in bis charge to the brew.
Ing company. Justice Farrell made his de-
cision upon the grounds that As the company
had been IN business before the prchibitory
liquor law went into effect, 1t would be III just
to order the beer DESTROYED and the sale Of IT
prohibited without compromising the brewing
company for the loss which they would neces-
sarily sustaia. The state fled notice Of APP
peal.